Juan S. Galt

Bitfilm, Bitcoin’s own film festival has opened up the voting booths this October 31 to choose the best Bitcoin film of 2005. How do you vote? Well, with bitcoin of course.

Nick Szabo will be the keynote speaker at DEVCON1, Ethereum’s yearly developer conference this 2015.

‘Rebooting the web of trust,’ a workshop taking place in San Francisco this November 3rd and 4th, is bringing together some impressive pioneers and could lead to world changing developments in the realm of online reputation systems and in the use of the blockchain.

‘Rebooting the web of trust,’ a workshop taking place in San Francisco this November 3rd and 4th, is bringing together some impressive pioneers and could lead to world changing developments in the realm of online reputation systems and in the use of the blockchain.

Bitshares, the currently fifth ranked crypocurrency by market cap, has evolved to version 2.0 as of October 13.

Blackphone 2 the only mobile phone designed for “privacy without compromise” was released by Silent Circle this September 28. As their Youtube video goes viral, their only privacy shortfall is not accepting bitcoin for purchases.

DASH has released a decentralized voting and fund allocation mechanism that could bypass the internal tensions of Bitcoin and its dramatic block size debate.

Ethereum took its first steps towards simplifying its user experience this week with the release of an EthereumWallet beta, a RushWallet version for the Bitcoin 2.0 platform.

The developers of Darkwallet, the intentionally controversial and OBPP award winning Privacy Bitcoin client are believed to have abandoned the project.

In a show of volatility that only Bitcoin users and some third world countries are really used to, markets around the world have seen falls in price of up to 10% over Monday and early Tuesday.

Bitcoin XT, the intentional fork that has been shaking up the bitcoin price, includes code branded as a hardcoded “blacklist” by critics.

Augur, the decentralized prediction market and one of the hottest Ethereum apps, has begun their token crowd sale on August 17, raising over US$600 thousand equivalent in BTC and ETH in the first day

KYC compliance, the regulatory standards that demand to know who you are and what you are doing with your money, are being adopted by Bitcoin exchanges more and more

As Ethereum finally began trading on major exchanges over the August 8 weekend, the price fell dramatically in what has been called by traders as the “Ether dump.”

A security alert has been issued by the Ethereum team regarding users of the Windows AlethZero and eth client.

Turns out that paying for your rent and other utilities with bitcoin is every easy with a private and simple method that has been right under our noses.

Ethereum has announced the official release date of the first ‘Frontier’ version, and provided a specific ‘how to’ guide for setting up mining clients, clarifying some confusion about the release process.

Stephen Tual of Ethereum has confirmed speculation about the soon to be 'launch' of the project leading to the controversial third party traded 'Ethercoin' to skyrocket in price.

NXT, the finance 2.0 blockchain platform, has voted unanimously to implement CoinShuffle, a coin mixing anonymity technique to NXTcoin and other 'Monetary System' tokens.

Ethereum, the decentralized application and smart contracting platform prepares to shoot the starting gun, as their Frontier release reaches 99% completion

Spain passed a law enacting fines of up to US$33,000 for peaceful protest and filming of police.

A Bitcoin real estate remittances company is working to lower the bureaucratic complexity of buying American real estate for the Chinese middle class.

The NYSE, flights of United Airlines and the Wall Street Journal all suffered from “technical glitches” on July 8, the same day that the Chinese Stock market plummeted.

Drachmae Connect, a tourism business network, is using NXT technology in attempt to help ease liquidity problems and business-to-business trade in the Island of Agistri.

What is “privacy”? Is there a right balance between privacy and mass surveillance? Does it matter, and if so, why? Are you a “bad” person if you want privacy?

Skype, Microsoft's voice over IP software, has been shown to be insecure on various levels over the years. The Snowden leaks have revealed it to be more of a mass surveillance malware than a secure communications platform.

Cointelegraph reviews three of the most promising alternatives to Skype that guarantee end-to-end encryption and greater privacy for its users.

Elliptic, a Bitcoin analytics and security firm based out of London, announced 'The Bitcoin Big Bang' on Thursday.

The act legalized and simplified the collecting of phone metadata for the NSA. Meanwhile Skype continues to collect data and deliver it to the Five Eyes

NXT, the 2.0 blockchain platform, has released a bundle of new features in their latest 1.5.10 release